We've grown pretty familiar with daily heinous-crime reports in Philly of late. But every so often, along comes a story that shatters any desensitization. Wednesday offered one of those stories.

At a press conference, Philadelphia Police released a crisp, detailed video of an attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl from the previous afternoon. She was walking home from a store in South Philadelphia with her 2-year-old brother when an unknown dirtbag trailed them, got out of his car — described as an "older model 4-door white vehicle" — and followed them on foot to pounce.